Balt wrote in
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Hi Ozzy,

I believe, that the Storage Recommendation : Long Term Storage means,
that this particular tea will improve over the time. It does not mean,
that it isn't drinkable now!
You should notice, that some pu-erh (especially 2005-2007) is made of
inferior leaves or is blended in way that causes it to detoriate over
the time. You know, bad pu-erh will mostly make bad aged pu-erh...

Tomas
tuochatea.blogspot.com

I thought it was perhaps something like that. Thanks, Tomas.